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- catalog abstract "How are signs and symptoms of psychic alienation - 'the diagnostics of madness' in M.E. Braddon's phrase - variously enfigured in literary texts. How do textual inscriptions of the unconscious, of that realm which is, by definition, the locus of the occluded and unreadable, function as vehicles of meaning and value? And how do readers invariably figure in some form of the 'madness' - the contradictions and illusions of mastery - they attempt to figure out? These are some of the questions addressed by Figuring Madness, a study which employs the insights of current poststructuralist psycho-analysis and semiotic theory to examine the complex interimplication of the subject and object of madness that is always implied by the dynamics of analytic dia-gnosis. In her focus on the implications of writing and reading signs of madness, Chris Wiesenthal offers new interpretations of both canonical and non-canonical texts by authors spanning the period from Jane Austen and Anthony trollope to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henry James.".
- catalog contributor b10499887.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Introduction: Figuring Madness -- Ch. 2. 'Unheard-of Contradictions': The Language of Madness in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' -- Ch. 3. 'Running Mad': Loco-Motion and the Madness of Language in Jane Austen's 'Love and Friendship' -- Ch. 4. The Body Melancholy; Trollope's He Knew He Was Right -- Ch. 5. The Suffocation of The Mother: Hysteria and Heart and Science -- Ch. 6. The Silent 'Horrors' of The Turn of The Screw and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' Revisited -- Ch. 7. Subjects at Sea: The Paranoiac Knowledge of Moby-dick -- Epilogue: Dia-gnosis.".
- catalog description "How are signs and symptoms of psychic alienation - 'the diagnostics of madness' in M.E. Braddon's phrase - variously enfigured in literary texts. How do textual inscriptions of the unconscious, of that realm which is, by definition, the locus of the occluded and unreadable, function as vehicles of meaning and value? And how do readers invariably figure in some form of the 'madness' - the contradictions and illusions of mastery - they attempt to figure out?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-198) and index.".
- catalog description "These are some of the questions addressed by Figuring Madness, a study which employs the insights of current poststructuralist psycho-analysis and semiotic theory to examine the complex interimplication of the subject and object of madness that is always implied by the dynamics of analytic dia-gnosis. In her focus on the implications of writing and reading signs of madness, Chris Wiesenthal offers new interpretations of both canonical and non-canonical texts by authors spanning the period from Jane Austen and Anthony trollope to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henry James.".
- catalog extent "x, 202 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312174950 (US)".
- catalog identifier "0333634667 (UK)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Basingstoke : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "823/.809353 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and mental illness English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Literature and mental illness Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and mental illness United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness in literature.".
- catalog subject "Mentally ill in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR868.M46 W54 1997".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis and literature English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis and literature.".
- catalog subject "Psychological fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Psychological fiction, English History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Introduction: Figuring Madness -- Ch. 2. 'Unheard-of Contradictions': The Language of Madness in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' -- Ch. 3. 'Running Mad': Loco-Motion and the Madness of Language in Jane Austen's 'Love and Friendship' -- Ch. 4. The Body Melancholy; Trollope's He Knew He Was Right -- Ch. 5. The Suffocation of The Mother: Hysteria and Heart and Science -- Ch. 6. The Silent 'Horrors' of The Turn of The Screw and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' Revisited -- Ch. 7. Subjects at Sea: The Paranoiac Knowledge of Moby-dick -- Epilogue: Dia-gnosis.".
- catalog title "Figuring madness in nineteenth-century fiction / Chris Wiesenthal.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".